Bettie Page: Queen of Hearts (Paperback)

~ Jim Silke (Author)

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Product Description

What a dish! What a doll! What a delinquent! Bettie Page sent the world for a cold shower when her first photo appeared in Flirt magazine in 1951. Bettie ignited a flame that burned through the art community, affecting forever the way women were portrayed by artists and photographers. In this 96-page coffee-table book, historian and artist Jim Silke explores Bettie's influence on popular culture, from dime-store novels to paperbacks, and from painting to advertising. Featured in this volume are fifty new images of Bettie, including never-before-published photographs by Bunny Yeager, as well as artists representations of Bettie. Glamour fans, art fans, and history buffs alike will clamor for Bettie Page: Queen of Hearts!

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse; 7th printing edition (November 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569711240
• ISBN-13: 978-1569711248
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #303,862 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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44 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tawdry Rather Than Celebratory, December 4, 2000

By A Customer

The most unfortunate thing about Jim Silke's book is that he writes about Bettie Page (and very poorly, at that) as an object rather than as a person--his interest in Bettie doesn't seem to extend beyond his own masturbatory fantasies. It doesn't appear that the author spent much time researching his subject (beyond looking at her pictures). While there are a respectable number photographs and some nice artwork by Dave Stevens and Robert McGinnis, there are far too many pages devoted to Silke's own drawings of Bettie, many of which are based on old movie stills or Olivia paintings.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must have for amy bettie page fan, November 25, 1998

By A Customer

Let me just say if your a bettie page fan you,ll love all the pic,drawing and hard to find nude of Ms page. Its a short book but well layed out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bettie Page, January 10, 2007

By	ANDREW K. DUNCAN "Movielover" (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Excellent book, with good pictures of Bettie. It has a good piece of Bettie's story, too!